CIMRM 362 - 1st century inscription. SS. Pietro and Marcellino, Rome.

Richard Gordon mentions this monument, and gives it the references CIMRM 362 a , b = CIL VI 732 = Moretti, lGUR I 179.¹

"Soli | Invicto Mithrae | T . Flavius Aug. lib. Hyginus | Ephebianus | d . d."

The inscription is bilingual, and the title in the Greek side is just "`Hliwi Mithrai".

On p.152 Gordon writes that the name "Flavius" for an imperial freedman dates it between 70-136 AD. The Greek section refers to a pater of the cult named Lollius Rufus, evidence of the existence of the rank system at this early date.

CIMRM entry

362. Ara reperta in Esquiliis ad aedem DD. Petri et Marcellini. CIL VI 732; MMM II No. 66. Soli / invicto Mithrae / T. Flavius Aug(usti) lib(ertus) Hyginus / Ephebianus / d(onum) d(edit). Kaibel,ISI, 996. Ἡλίῳ Μίθραι / Τ(ίτος) Φλάουιος Ὑγεῖος / διὰ Λολλίου Ρούφου / πατρὸς ἰδίου For the double cognomen, that should date from the time before Hadrian, see: Hülsen in Bull. IsI.1888, 232; RM IH, 222ff and our No. 496. [8Lou added in order to preclude confusion with the grade of pater.